Creating an AST node in Erlang
- by dagda1
Hi,
I am playing about with Erlang and I am trying to write a simple arithmetic parser.
I want to try and parse the following expression:
((12+3)-4)
I want to parse the expression into a stack of AST nodes. When parsing this expression, I would first of all create a binary expression for the (12+3) expression which would look something like this in C#:
var binaryStructure = new BinaryStructure();
binaryStructure.Left = IntegerLiteralExpression(12);
binaryStructure.Right = IntegerLiteralExpression(4);
binaryStructure.Operator = binaryExpression.Operator != BinaryOperatorType.Addition;
I am quite new to Erlang and I am wondering how I would go about creating a structure like this in Erlang that I can place on a List that I would use as the stack of expressions.
Can anyone suggest how to create such a tree like structure? Would a function be a good fit?
Thanks
Paul
